If I have a ninth - grader who reads at third - grade level, I must give the student a strategy for breaking down the word
into decodable chunks so that they can read the type of words found in ninth - grade reading material.
We can't teach all 10,000 words, but we can teach students how to put words
into decodable chunks.
Not exact matches
Provide a language - rich classroom but make sure you build
into the day explicit phonics teaching and
decodable text.»
This strategy has been proven effective in helping students to break words
into manageable,
decodable chunks, read long words in content area text books, increase oral and silent reading fluency, and improve comprehension as decoding and fluency increase.
Phonics instruction should be explicit in that letter - sound relationships are taught one at a time, letter sounds are then blended
into whole words, and words are practiced in
decodable text or text that only has the letter sounds that students are able to read by that point.